Intrepid Izzy
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aL BeasTie
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I had seen the project a while ago, cool to see some in game action. I hope you sell a billion copies ;D
it makes me think beat em up version of 'Crystal Caves' lol
Admittedly I really don't like this style of graphics thou, but the market isn't for old farts like me anymore. :
My first impressions were the same as DC, it seems kinda limited, the dress up feature is kinda cool, but it kind of highlights the paper doll look of the character cause the face doesn't change. She could really use eye movements and other facial animations.
it makes me think beat em up version of 'Crystal Caves' lol
Admittedly I really don't like this style of graphics thou, but the market isn't for old farts like me anymore. :
My first impressions were the same as DC, it seems kinda limited, the dress up feature is kinda cool, but it kind of highlights the paper doll look of the character cause the face doesn't change. She could really use eye movements and other facial animations.
aL BeasTie
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lol no I just thought of this game watching Izzy collecting those gems 
O Ilusionista
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Nice work! Something which crossed my mind is: Why DC can handle your game but struggle to run the most updated OpenBOR? Maybe because your game is optmized for it?
Roel
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O Ilusionista said:
Well, that's a good question, but I'm afraid I am no longer sufficiently familiar with OpenBOR's code and features to adequately answer it.
I can confirm, though, that I did spend a significant amount of time optimising the Dreamcast-specific parts of my code, but really that is only a tiny fraction of what makes the game run fast. The most important optimisations are in the platform-independent parts: minimising the number of collision checks, pre-calculating and pre-parsing as much as possible, avoiding int-float and float-int conversions (in fact this game uses fixed-point maths almost exclusively), and being generally frugal with RAM. I didn't do that specifically for the Dreamcast, it's all just force of habit I suppose. I actually developed the game for PC initially, but when I compiled it for the DC it ran almost perfectly on the first try.
By the way, some people may think I'm a loony for using fixed-point arithmetics when most floating point operations are just as fast. One reason I already mentioned: converting between float and int is unavoidable, and much slower than is often assumed. The other is that my game engine supports huge, and I do mean HUGE levels - so much so, in fact, that it could potentially run into precision issues if I'd used plain old floating points. I've never actually built such levels, and perhaps I never will, but at least I know that I could do so without breaking the engine. I wouldn't recommend using fixed-point for OpenBOR, though.
Since Roel is busy with Intrepid Izzy 24/7, I (as his team mate) have taken it upon myself to show you some progress.
First of all, a very cool town level where you can talk to NPC's, enter houses and change your power-enabling costumes.
One of these new costumes is the ninja costume,
First of all, a very cool town level where you can talk to NPC's, enter houses and change your power-enabling costumes.
One of these new costumes is the ninja costume,
16-bit Fighter
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Lovely graphics and animations. Congrats!